Publications

Michael Cruz and Luciano Barbosa. Learning GPS Point Representations to Detect Anomalous Bus Trajectories. IEEE Access, 2021. [paper ]

Johny Moreira, Chaina Oliveira, David Macedo, Cleber Zanchettin and Luciano Barbosa. Distantly-Supervised Neural Relation Extraction with Side Information using BERT. IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI), 2020.

Larícia Cavalcante, Ullayne Lima, Luciano Barbosa, Ana Luiza Gomes, Eden Santana, Thiago Martins. Improving Search Quality with Automatic Ranking Evaluation and Tuning. SBBD, 2020. (Industrial Paper) [paper]

Johnny Marcos, Luciano Barbosa, Paulo Rego, Regis P. Magalhães, José Macedo. Indexando Impressões Digitais Utilizando Índice Invertido: Uma Investigação Inicial. SBBD, 2020. [paper]

Luciano Barbosa. Learning Representations of Web Entities for Entity Resolution. International Journal of Web Information Systems, v. 15, p. 346-358, 2019. [paper]

Vinicius Cousseau and Luciano Barbosa. Large-scale Record Linkage of Web-based Place Entities. SBBD, 2019. (Industrial Paper) [paper]

Johny Moreira, Everaldo Neto and Luciano Barbosa. Índices de Infoboxes para Recuperação de Informação Estruturada de Entidades da Wikipédia. SBBD Datasets Showcase, 2019.

Disheng Qiu, Luciano Barbosa, Valter Crescenzi, Paolo Merialdo and Divesh Srivastava. Big Data Linkage for Product Specification Pages. International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD), 2018. [paper]

Luciano Barbosa, Valter Crescenzi, Xin Luna Dong, Paolo Merialdo, Federico Piai, Disheng Qiu, Yanyan Shen and Divesh Srivastava. Big Data Integration for Product Specifications. IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin, 41(2): 71-81. 2018

Luciano Barbosa, Valter Crescenzi, Xin Luna Dong, Paolo Merialdo, Federico Piai, Disheng Qiu, Yanyan Shen, Divesh Srivastava. Lessons Learned and Research Agenda for Big Data Integration of Product Specifications. 26th Italian Symposium on Advanced Database Systems (SEBD), 2018.

Alexandre Vianna, Michael Cruz, Luciano Barbosa and Kiev Gama. Análise do Impacto de Chuvas na Velocidade Média do Transporte Público Coletivo de Ônibus em Recife. Workshop Brasileiro de Cidades Inteligentes (WBCI), 2018.

Luciano Barbosa. Harvesting Forum Pages from Seed Sites. International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE), 2017. (Application Paper) [paper]

Karane Vieira, Luciano Barbosa, Juliana Freire, Altigran Silva and Edleno Silva. Finding Seeds to Bootstrap Focused Crawlers. World Wide Web Journal, vol. 19, issue 3, 2016.

Luciano Barbosa, Paulo Cavalin, Victor Guimaraes and Matthias Komarksson. Using Distributed Representations for Semantic Similarity and Entailment Recognition. Linguamatica, 2016.

Carlos Júnior, Luciano Barbosa and Hendrik Macedo. A Hybrid Deep Network for Name Entity Recognition in Portuguese. 13rd National Meeting on Artificial and Computational Intelligence (ENIAC), 2016.

Cicero dos Santos, Luciano Barbosa, Dasha Bogdanova and Bianca Zadrozny. Learning Hybrid Representations to Retrieve Semantically Equivalent Questions. 53rd Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2015.

Disheng Qiu, Luciano Barbosa, Xin Luna Dong, Yanyan Shen and Divesh Srivastava. DEXTER: Large-Scale Discovery and Extraction of Product Specifications on the Web. VLDB Endowment (PVLDB) vol.8, issue 13, 2015.

Luciano Barbosa and Guilherme Ferreira. Extracting Records and Posts from Forum Pages with Limited Supervision. 16th Web Information System Engineering (WISE), 2015. (Short Paper)

Dasha Bogdanova, Cicero dos Santos, Luciano Barbosa and Bianca Zadrozny. Detecting Semantically Equivalent Questions in Online User Forums. 8th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL), 2015.

Marcos Vieira, Luciano Barbosa,Matthias Kormaksson and Bianca Zadrozny. USapiens: A System for Urban Trajectory Data Analytics. 16th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM), 2015

Flavio Santos, Carlos Junior, Hendrik Macedo, Marco Chella, Rosana Givigi and Luciano Barbosa.CA2JU: an Assistive Tool for Children with Cerebral Palsy.15th World Congress on Health and Biomedical Informatics (MEDINFO), 2015.

Flavio Santos, Nayara Silva, Luciano Barbosa, Thiago Bispo, Carlos Junior and Hendrik Macedo. VazaBarris and Poxim Corpora: Augmenting NLP Software Ability for Informal Brazilian Portuguese. 12th National Meeting on Artificial and Computational Intelligence (ENIAC), 2015.

Carlos Junior, Hendrik Macedo, Thiago Bispo, Flavio Oliveira, Nayara Silva and Luciano Barbosa. Paramopama: a Brazilian-Portuguese Corpus for Named Entity Recognition.12th National Meeting on Artificial and Computational Intelligence (ENIAC), 2015.

Matthias Kormaksson, Luciano Barbosa, Marcos Vieira and Bianca Zadrozny. Bus Travel Time Predictions Using Additive Models. 13th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), 2014.

uciano Barbosa, Kien Pham, Claudio Silva, Marcos Vieira and Juliana Freire. Structured Open Urban Data: Understanding the Landscape. Big Data, 2 (3), 2014.

Freddy Lecue, Robert Tucker, Simone Tallevi-Diotallevi, Rahul Nair, Yiannis Gkoufas, Giuseppe Liguori, Mauro Borioni, Alexandre Rademaker and Luciano Barbosa. Semantic Traffic Diagnosis with STAR-CITY: Architecture and Lessons Learned from Deployment in Dublin, Bologna, Miami and Rio. 13th International Semantic Web Conference ISWC, 2014. (Best In Use Paper)

Luciano Barbosa, Matthias Kormaksson, Marcos Vieira, Rafael Lage and Bianca Zadrozny.Vistradas: Visual Analytics for Urban Trajectory Data. 15th Brazilian Symposium on Geoinformatics (GeoInfo), 2014.

Tuan Hoang-Vu, Aline Bessa, Luciano Barbosa and Juliana Freire.Bridging Vocabularies to Link Tweets and News. 16th International Workshop on the Web Databases (WebDB), 2014.

Luciano Barbosa. Mining Enterprise Websites for Association Thesaurus Construction. 16th International Workshop on the Web Databases (WebDB), 2013.

Luciano Barbosa, Vivek K. R. Sridhar, Mahsa Yarmohammadi and Srinivas Bangalore. Harvesting Parallel Text in Multiple Languages with Limited Supervision. 24th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), 2012.

Luciano Barbosa and Srinivas Bangalore. Focusing on Novelty: A Crawling Strategy to Build Diverse Language Models. 20th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2011.

Luciano Barbosa, Srinivas Bangalore and Vivek K. R. Sridhar. Crawling Back and Forth: Using Back and Out Links to Locate Bilingual Sites. 5th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP), 2011.

Vivek K. R. Sridhar, Luciano Barbosa and Srinivas Bangalore. A Scalable Approach for Building a Parallel Corpus from the Web. 12th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH), 2011.

Luciano Barbosa, Diamantino Caseiro, Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio, Amanda Stent. SpeechForms - From Web to Speech and Back. 12th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH), 2011.

Bernard Renger, Junlan Feng, Ovidiu Dan, Harry Chang, Luciano Barbosa. VoiSTV: voice-enabled social TV. 20th International Conference on World Wide Web (WWW), 2011. (Demo)

Luciano Barbosa and Junlan Feng. Robust Sentiment Detection on Twitter from Biased and Noisy Data. 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), 2010.

Luciano Barbosa and Juliana Freire. Using Latent-Structure to Detect Objects on the Web. 13th ACM SIGMOD International Workshop on Web and Databases (WebDB), 2010.

Luciano Barbosa, Hoa Nguyen, Thanh Nguyen, Ramesh Pinnamaneni and Juliana Freire. Creating and Exploring Web Form Repositories. 35th ACM Special Interest Group on Management Data Conference (SIGMOD), 2010. (Demo)

Luciano Barbosa and Juliana Freire. Siphoning Hidden-Web Data through Keyword-Based Interfaces. Journal of Information & Data Management (JIDM), 2010. (Invited Paper)

Luciano Barbosa, Ravi Kumar, Bo Pang and Andrew Tomkins. For a Few Dollars Less: Identifying Review Pages sans Human Labels. North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Human Language Technologies (NAACL-HLT), 2009.

Vander Alves, Christa Schwanninger, Luciano Barbosa, Awais Rashid, Peter Sawyer, Paul Rayson, Christoph Pohl and Andreas Rummler. An Exploratory Study of Information Retrieval Techniques in Domain Analysis. 12th Software Product Line Conference (SPLC), 2008.

Karane Vieira, Luciano Barbosa, Juliana Freire and Altigran Silva. Siphon++: A Hidden-Web Crawler for Keyword-Based Interfaces. 17th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2008. (Poster)

Luciano Barbosa and Juliana Freire. An Adaptive Crawler for Locating Hidden-Web Entry Points. 16th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), 2007.

Luciano Barbosa and Juliana Freire. Combining Classifiers to Identify Online Databases. 16th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), 2007.

Luciano Barbosa, Juliana Freire and Altigran Silva. Organizing Hidden-Web Databases by Clustering Visible Web Documents. 23rd International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2007.

Luciano Barbosa, Sumit Tandon and Juliana Freire. Automatically Constructing a Directory of Molecular Biology Databases. International Workshop on Data Integration in the Life Sciences 2007 (DILS), 2007.

Luciano Barbosa and Juliana Freire. Automatically Constructing Collections of Online Databases. 15th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2006. (Poster)

Luciano Barbosa and Juliana Freire. Searching for Hidden-Web Databases. 8th ACM SIGMOD International Workshop on Web and Databases (WebDB), 2005.

Luciano Barbosa, Ana Carolina Salgado, Francisco de Carvalho, Jacques Robin and Juliana Freire. Looking at both the Present and the Past to Efficiently Update Replicas of Web Content. 7th ACM International Workshop on Web Information and Data Management (WIDM), 2005.

Luciano Barbosa and Juliana Freire. Siphoning Hidden-Web Data through Keyword-Based Interfaces. 19th Brazilian Symposium on Databases (SBBD), 2004.

Luciano Barbosa, Franklin Ramalho, Mariano Cravo Neto and Ana Carolina Salgado. Dynamic Indexing of Information in the Web: The Case of News Sites. 2003 IRMA International Conference, 2003.

Luciano Barbosa, Franklin Ramalho and Ana Carolina Salgado. Atualizando Informação Dinâmica na Web: o Caso do Conteúdo de Notícias. Revista de Informatica Teorica e Aplicada (RITA), v. 9, n. 3, 2002.